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Officer rules against E. Idaho sex offender
Associated Press - August 11, 2008 6:14 PM ET IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) - A state hearing officer has ruled that a convicted child molester violated terms of his parole by having a computer...
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Vonage's subscriber growth grinds to a halt
Vonage Holdings Corp.'s subscriber growth nearly ground to a halt in the second quarter, as the Internet telephone company said Thursday it gained just 2,000 lines in the period.
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Five arrests over web weapon images
Five teenagers have been arrested after they were caught brandishing weapons on the internet, police said. Officers in Strathclyde began monitoring photographs and footage posted on social networking sites such as Bebo and YouTube last month.
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Biz blog: Upgrade for Google Maps
Anyone else notice Google Maps got a little bit of a new look recently? It's nothing drastic, just a few simple changes.
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Review: Online Olympics is ambitious, but not TV
NEW YORK - NBC Universal is running an unprecedented 3,600 hours of Olympics coverage on television and the Internet, most of it live online, letting fans track their favorite...
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Georgia accuses Russia of coordinated cyberattack
Georgian embassy says sites had been unavailable over the weekend, claiming this was due to Russian denial-of-service attacks coinciding with ongoing military operations.
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White space tests get mixed results
Testing of unused wireless spectrum is getting mixed results as the FCC puts different technologies to the test in real world situations.
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Conexant completes sale of BMP to NXP
NEWPORT BEACH, USA: Conexant Systems Inc. has completed the sale of its broadband media processing (BMP) product lines to NXP Semiconductors . Conexant will receive approximately $110 million in cash and up to $35 million in an "earn-out" fee, contingent upon the achievement of certain milestones through the end of calendar 2009.
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Blog Buzz: Russia, Georgia, and Obama's New Ad
What to do about the Georgia and the awakened bear, and Obama hits back on celebrity.
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Launchpad Chicken: MobileMe and sync trouble
Jean-Louis Gassée looks into Apple's MobileMe launch misfire and whether the company is capable of running a worldwide wireless data synchronization service for tens of millions of users.
CNET |
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Is EarthLink-AOL deal feasible — or prudent?
Dial-up Internet company EarthLink has more money in the bank than it did last year thanks to a series of cost-cutting moves by CEO Rolla Huff. But could a nest egg of roughly $500 million be enough for the troubled Atlanta-based company to buy AOL's dial-up business? Granted, AOL has struggled, too, and its owner, Time Warner, really wants to get rid of the unit. Still, the rumored price tag is ...
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Microsoft online exec Berkowitz joins TheLadders board
Steve Berkowitz, who is leaving Microsoft, is joining the board of TheLadders.com, an online executive job site.
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Laptop with travelers' airport security data likely stolen
Computer with travelers' security-bypass data reappears at San Francisco airport; employees to be questioned in suspected theft
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PC Tools' Security Software Adds ThreatFire
PC Tools said Monday that it had begun shipping the 2009 versions of its security suite and desktop tools. In addition to the expected improvements in detection, both the Internet Security 2009 suite and Spyware Doctor 6 include "Behavior Guard," a fancy name for the ThreatFire behavioral technology PC Tools previously offered as a standalone product.
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Bloglines adds advertising, launches new look
RSS reader start-up starts rolling out a redesign in response to member feedback, and begins incorporating ads to pull in some revenue.
CNET |
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Final Glance: Computers companies
Apple Inc rose $4.01 or 2.4 percent, to $173.56. Dell Inc rose $.19 or .8 percent, to $25.19.
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Final Glance: Internet companies
Akamai Technologies rose $.39 or 1.7 percent, to $23.21. Amazon rose $7.58 or 9.4 percent, to $88.09.
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Excellent, Comelec says of high-tech ARMM polls
MANILA, Philippines—Despite sporadic violence and technical glitches, the Commission on Elections Monday declared the computerized balloting in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) an “excellent” exercise.
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Launchpad Chicken: MobileMe and sync trouble
Jean-Louis Gassée looks into Apple's MobileMe launch misfire and whether the company is capable of running a worldwide wireless data synchronization service for tens of millions of users.
CNET |
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Friendster to focus on user growth for now
SOCIAL networking group Friendster Inc, plans to list but only once it has optimised growth potential in its networking service, said its top official.
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San Francisco Updating Computer Security Measures
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Congress Probing Deeper Into Online Privacy Practices
Online data collection and privacy policies are attracting the attention of Congress. There is no broad privacy legislation governing advertising on the Internet.
GigaLaw.com |
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Defcon’s Wall of Sheep eats iPhones for breakfast, lunch and dinner
Smartphones are great for texting and surfing the web, but many of those applications have absolutely no security according to security researchers at the recently completed Defcon computer security conference. Volunteers at the Wall of Sheep told TG Daily that mobile application developers are emphasizing usability over security. They add that many secure desktop applications become unsecure ...
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Intel's Nehalem chips to get 'Core' branding
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Intel's Nehalem chips to get 'Core' branding --Chipmaker's next-generation desktop processors will be branded "Core" and get an "i7" identifier for the first wave of products. Samsung's showcase in San Fran --Peter Glaskowsky attends a Samsung product showcase in San Francisco, admires and analyzes various HDTVs, computer monitors, cell phones, ...
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Before the Internet era, the picture of Japan that was fed to the world came through books written by an elite class of highly educated people: traveling academics, professional journalists and seasoned diplomats.
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